Simulacra and Simulation
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December 2025: The ur-text on reality and unreality, signs and symbols, and at 164 pages, it’s a short (albeit dense) read.
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How do you read a dense text like this? I think I was able to somewhat grasp the idea of the imitation of the real thing becoming the real thing... as seen through AI music and (earlier) fiat money. Beyond that, I'm not sure what Baudrillard talks about.
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Simulacra and Simulation
Steven Weill
“A tough read that is worth wrestling with for however long it takes, Jean Baudrillard's essay on the relationship between reality and society serves as the foundational inspiration for The Matrix (1999). Per Baudrillard, Simulacra are copies that depict things that either had no original, or that no longer have an original and Simulation is the imitation of the operation of a real-world process or”
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